Comments on: Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup http://thehalfwaypoint.net/2011/07/vel-dhiv-roundup/ choosing positivity Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:47:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ayala http://thehalfwaypoint.net/2011/07/vel-dhiv-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-14183 ayala Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:04:52 +0000 http://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=5395#comment-14183 What a great post, Belinda. As you know my dad and family were survivors of the holocaust. As you express we must never forget these crimes toward humanity, thank you for bringing this to us today. What a great post, Belinda. As you know my dad and family were survivors of the holocaust. As you express we must never forget these crimes toward humanity, thank you for bringing this to us today.

]]> By: Andrew Olson http://thehalfwaypoint.net/2011/07/vel-dhiv-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-14182 Andrew Olson Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:47:20 +0000 http://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=5395#comment-14182 That was an atrocity, to be sure... and there are atrocities being committed today as well. Future historians will probably look back on today with disgust, while they're committing their own atrocities for the next generation to look back on. Can we make progress? Or, have we have progress? Maybe, but nothing measurable. We just like to think that our generation is better than those previous. It reminds me of a very sobering quote: "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." -Aldous Huxley That was an atrocity, to be sure… and there are atrocities being committed today as well. Future historians will probably look back on today with disgust, while they’re committing their own atrocities for the next generation to look back on.

Can we make progress? Or, have we have progress? Maybe, but nothing measurable. We just like to think that our generation is better than those previous. It reminds me of a very sobering quote:

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” -Aldous Huxley

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